Clipped from a Connersville paper the day after the horrific 1913 flood across the Whitewater Valley. This one made claims that even the most naive person would have questioned. Much of the devastation was real across the area where the flood raged, but the "levee" at Fairfield never existed. So much here appears to have been concocted by someone who obviously knew better -- but chose to ignore the facts.
No matter. This is how history is created, one fact, fable or fictional folly at a time. Not much was wiped from the map, unless it was something that could be replaced. Fairfield did not suffer as much as other towns did. The death toll was real but always far less than the reports claimed.
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